LifeTime Fitness offers health and fitness services. As each new member signs up, they are provided with the tools necessary for complete fitness. But because paper printing and administrative costs were escalating, LifeTime Fitness decided to create a web-based application for signing up new members. The paperless agreement application needed to be capable of checking credit card/check information electronically, plus collect e-signatures.

After extensive research in determining both the method of signature capture and the device vendor, LifeTime Fitness chose the SignatureGem range After completing the document, a member or employee can sign using the signature pad, which will automatically import the digital signature into the web form using GemTools software, free from the our web site. The e-form will be submitted to the database embedded in the form itself on the company intranet. LifeTime Fitness chooses to use the SignatureGem LCD. The LCD model, they feel, offers a great benefit to their customers: the signature appears on the LCD screen as they sign, providing a “pen on paper” feel just like they’re used to. And thanks to the GemTools software, digital signatures taken with the system have the most accurate biometric record in the industry, providing precise, one-of-a-kind signature data to settle any issues of non-repudiation, should they arise. “Electronic signature capture has provided considerable value to us by enabling the creation of truly paperless forms and applications. Paperless forms, in turn, provide significant savings in paper, data entry, administrative overhead, and time,” says Wesley Bertch of LifeTime Fitness. Plus, he adds that “setting up signature capture was pretty straight forward, and the signature capture integration with the web browser went smoothly.” Signing up members digitally has been a great benefit to LifeTime Fitness, saving them time and expenses. And the SignatureGem range has yet again had the opportunity to sign up LifeTime with the tools they need for Internet e-signatures